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Sport Psychology: Gender, Race, and Stereotypes

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What would you do to enhance the opportunities for minorities and women to achieve head coaching and sport administrative positions?

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This solution discusses enhancing the opportunities for minorities and women to achieve head coaching and sport administrative positions.

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Dear Student,
Hi and thank you for your patience. This particular task is opinion based - it asks what you would do. Since it is sports psychology, it would be ideal to add elements of psychology in it but I believe it needs to show your own sense of social justice. I suggest this simple outline:

1. On creating coaching opportunities - 100 words, your opinion
2. What you would do (measures) 150 words
3. Psychology elements - 50 to100 words

This should cover what you need. Just let me know via the feedback section if you need further clarification. Good luck with your studies.

Coaching Opportunities

According to Habersham (2011), there is a crisis in the field of coaching. There are very few women and minorities in coaching positions and in the US Athletics Association, there are over 50 positions for coaching and only 18 are held by women and minorities. For Habersham (2011), "...diversity shortage seems to be a common thing among athletic departments across the country." In my opinion, she is right. In an equal society, opportunities should be the same ...

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